Usage:
Clarks Spring Member of Secret Spring Shale (NV*)
Geologic age:
Middle Cambrian (Lincolnian; Marjuman)*
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality: especially good exposures of the member provided by roadcuts in upper New York Canyon, just north of Clarks Spring near head of southwesterly branch of New York Canyon, [along bdry. btw. NE/4 sec. 3 (unsurveyed), T. 18 N., R. 53 E., and SE/4 sec. 34 (unsurveyed), T. 19 N., R. 53 E., northwestern corner Pinto Summit 15-min quadrangle (1953 ed.)], Eureka mining district, Eureka Co., central NV (Nolan and others, 1956).
AAPG geologic province:
Great Basin province*
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